Updating an earlier item, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports the Boston Red Sox signed OF Alex Ochoa to a minor league deal Tuesday, Feb. 6, with an invitation to attend major league spring training camp. Financial terms were not released.

Updating a previous story, outfielder Alex Ochoa has told the St. Louis Cardinals he will accept the Chunichi Dragons' one-year, $2 million contract rather than a $600,000 minor-league deal offered by the Cardinals if Ochoa made the roster.

The St. Louis Cardinals appear to have let outfielder Alex Ochoa go to the Chunichi Dragons, according to Joe Strauss of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ochoa, signed by the Cardinals last month to a minor-league contract with an invitation to spring training, agreed to terms with the Dragons on a one-year, $2 million contract that could go as high as $2.5 million with incentives.